Sometimes we are the cause of our difficulties. And if we can step out of our own way, something astonishing happens.
It felt like a dream come true. I thought, I’ll get to help tell stories again. Even better, instead of developing self-contained films with neatly crafted endings, I’ll get to work on series. Over the course of multiple episodes and seasons, I’ll have a hand in helping audiences get to know their favorite characters, layer by layer—characters as flawed and contradictory as the rest of us, with stories that are just as messy. It seemed like the perfect solution to my boredom. It would take years for me to realize that I’d solved the wrong problem.